On Vimy Ridge

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Title:     On Vimy Ridge
Author: Christopher Morley [More Titles by Morley]

"The Stars and Stripes went into battle at Vimy Ridge on the bayonet of a young Texan, fighting with a Canadian regiment."--News item.

On Vimy Ridge the Flag renewed
Her youth: the thunder of the guns
Recalled the crimson plenitude
Shed by her ancient sons.

Once more her white and scarlet bands
Were new-baptized with battle sweat:
She felt the clutch of desperate hands,
The push of bayonet.

Across that bloody snarl of wire
Her colors blossomed clean as flame:
The Bride of Glory, in desire
To meet her groom she came.

The lightning in her folds she kept,
The sky, the stars, the dew--
Impassioned, in her youth she swept
On Vimy, born anew!

[The end]
Christopher Morley's poem: On Vimy Ridge

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